Grade 5 saw us move once again this time to Braeside by bus because a brick wall from Louis Riel Elementary and Junior High then under construction had blown down and killed a worker so while the investigation proceeded or more likely while the wall was rebuilt we attended Braeside Elementary you see where we were introduced to Mrs. Dawson there was no end to the Scots who were marshalled to teach Mrs. Dawson continued the drills of basic facts or times tables and coached us along when we mixed 11 times 12 with 8 times 9 and when she got sick and a substitute was provided we learned about the Troubles and Catholics and Protestants which none of us knew of it turned out the substitute was from Londonderry and had migrated to Canada to get away the guns and the rocks and the bombs and for the days that she taught she told us in lisps and lilts and harsherer things still of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the IRA we noti...